by Frank R. Wallace

[Warning:
Neo-Tech material is FUNDAMENTALLY, METAPHYSICALLY INCOMPATIBLE with
Objectivism! It stars with some Objectivist-like premises, then injects
the following arbitrary metaphysical assertions into its discussions: (1)
Civilization of the Universe, (2) Extraterrestrial Zons, (3) Thinkons, (4)
Universal Computer. Arbitrary assertions have NO PLACE in Objectivism!
The authors have expropriated Objectivism and twisted it into something
metaphysically opposed to Objectivism. Do yourself a favor and read some
of Ayn Rand's books instead.]

This is a summary of Frank R. Wallace's book The Neo-Tech Discovery.
It does not necessarily represent the opinions of Frank R. Wallace or of the Neo-Tech
Publishing company. It is posted by me, Luke Setzer,
as a courtesy to those who want to learn more about philosophy, neocheating, and Neo-Tech.

BACKGROUND

The nature of the human organism and its relationship to the outside world dictate that
it must receive and process information in a sound manner in order to prosper and live
happily. Accurate integrations of concrete perceptions into higher-level abstractions
called concepts are necessary for a human organism to apply Reason, its
method of survival. These higher-level concepts are essentially a person's beliefs
about the nature of reality. A belief can be defined simply as "any guiding principle
that provides a sense of certainty about meaning and direction in life." Beliefs are
a person's prearranged, organized filters to his or her perceptions of the world. The
beliefs held by a human mind allow that mind to assign meanings to the events it perceives
through its senses. Accurate beliefs, i.e. beliefs in agreement with objective reality,
provide a person with the guidance necessary to select the optimum survival choice in a
given situation. Inaccurate beliefs, or myths, misguide the believer and are
always harmful long-term.

PHILOSOPHY

The sum total of a person's beliefs form that person's philosophy, which is
that person's integrated view of existence. A philosophical system generally
addresses five areas:

Metaphysics: Man's relationship with the universe

Epistemology: Man's relationship with his mind

Ethics: Man's relationship with himself

Politics: Man's relationship among each other

Aesthetics: Man's relationship with beauty

Since ancient times, philosophers have taken on the task of explaining the nature of
the world we observe. Some have preached beliefs that are accurate and useful, while
others have generated harmful myths and disseminated them to the masses. Mysticism
is the acceptance or promotion of myths, and generally creates problems where none
actually exist.

NEOCHEATING

A particularly hideous result of widespread mysticism is neocheating, a
clever, two-step, poker-like process that allows the perpetrator to usurp money and power
on a grand scale. The two-step maneuver is quite simple, yet almost always undetectable:

Promote a myth

Gain unearned values from those who accept the myth

The original master neocheater identified by Frank R. Wallace in his book The
Neo-Tech Discovery was Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher. Plato advocated the
notion of "higher causes" and "innate ideas" to explain abstractions,
definitions, and other concepts that are known to exist in the mind but are not readily
perceivable. These ideas of a "higher" world outside our perceived reality, as
well as the ineffectiveness of our senses and of our ability to reason, have been used and
abused by very notable neocheating organizations such as:

The Catholic Church (Sacrificing countless individuals for the sake of "God")

Communist Russia and China (Sacrificing countless individuals for the sake of "The
State")

New Age "Environmentalists" (Sacrificing countless individuals for the sake of
"Mother Gaia")

The idea systems promoted by master neocheaters share common traits when they are
broken down into the five branches of philosophy. What is most notable about their common
traits is not just their content, but their structure. Repeatedly, these idea
systems assume a primacy of epistemology over metaphysics. In other words,
"If I wish it, it's so. I can dismiss observed laws of nature, economics, human
behavior, etc. out of hand." Also notable is the primacy of politics over
ethics. The master neocheater will almost always default to force in order to get his way
with the masses. Once that happens, the individual's ethics become secondary, since the
master neocheater's philosophy is to have the masses "do it my way or else."

Here, then, is the Neocheating Hoax, presented in order of
primacy:

Epistemology: Mysticism with Specialized Thinking

Metaphysics: Higher Causes

Politics: Force-Backed Control to Enforce Higher Causes

Ethics: Value Destruction through Self-Sacrifice

Aesthetics: Envy Justification

To put it another way, the neocheating philosophy could be summarized by these words:

There are "Higher Causes" more important than yourself.
How do we know? "Authority" says so. Therefore, there are.
Believe it, or else.
Any chosen action that purposely benefits you is immoral.
Any source of worldly pleasure should be destroyed.

To see the Neocheating Hoax in the form of a philosophical pyramid, building in primacy
from the foundation up, click here.

AYN RAND'S MILLENIUM WORK: OBJECTIVISM

Ayn Rand was born in Russia in 1905. As a young girl, she saw her father's business
ravaged by the Communist takeover, and her family sometimes went hungry because of the
Communists' actions. She managed to leave Russia at age 20, never to return. Over the
course of her lifetime, she developed and advocated a philosophy that ripped 3000 years of
mysticism from philosophical inquiry. She named that philosophy Objectivism.

Objectivism restores to rational order the jumbled structure of myths promoted over the
centuries by master neocheaters, and replaces the myths with sound concepts that capture
the essential nature of man and the universe. Here is a summary of the philosophy of
Objectivism in order of primacy. Note that the primacy of metaphysics over epistemology is
recognized, as is the primacy of ethics over politics.

Metaphysics: Reality

Epistemology: Reason

Ethics: Self-Interest

Politics: Capitalism

Aesthetics: Romantic Realism

This philosophy can be summarized in eight words:

Existence exists. Consciousness is self-evident. A is A.

To see the Objectivism Philosophy in the form of a philosophical pyramid, building in
primacy from the foundation up, click here.

NEO-TECH: EXPANDING OBJECTIVISM TO UNIVERSAL PROPORTIONS

In the late 20th century, Frank R. Wallace began publishing a series of books that
exposed neocheating. His precursor book, Poker: A Guaranteed Income for Life Using the
Advanced Concepts of Poker, uses card games as a metaphor to illustrate the concepts
of neocheating. Remember, neocheating is a slick, two-step maneuver:

Promote a myth

Gain unearned values from those who accept the myth

In the game of cards, a small-time neocheater can identify and befriend a player of
mediocre talent and low self-esteem, get him to play cards and bet loosely, then gain
winnings from the player. The card-sharp neocheater can set up the situation in such a way
that the player returns game after game because he feels such a warmth and respect for the
neocheater. In this case, the player has fallen for the myth that the card-sharp actually
"cares" for him, and thus the neocheater gains unearned money from the player.

Expand the concept of the card-sharp neocheater to include most union leaders,
politicians, salemen, "environmentalists," lawyers, Don Juans, etc. and you get
the idea of just how grand a scheme neocheating can be.

Over the years, Wallace has developed specific techniques for identifying and
nullifying neocheaters. He called these New identification Techniques
"Neo-Tech." Wallace defines Neo-Tech as "fully
integrated honesty based on facts of reality." Wallace shows that to nullify a
neocheater, one need simply collapse his or her own personal mysticism. Once
personal mysticism is collapsed, one can move into myth-free, integrated reasoning--Neothink.

The Neo-Tech philosophy has at its core the philosophy of Objectivism. Wallace has
expanded the Objectivist view of man to propose that as human technology grows, biological
immortality (BI) will develop to allow humans to prosper and live happily forever. Once
this hurdle is cleared, the only event that would terminate BI would be the eventual
demise of our universe. Given the exponential growth of human technology, The Neo-Tech
Discovery proposes that even the demise of our universe can be prevented by
conscious, technology-based intervention. [Here is where the nasty
arbitrary assertions take hold and ruin everything!] The book goes on to propose that the existence
of much older extraterrestrial species possessing human-like consciousness is so probable
that the universe may even now be controlled by such species. Frank R. Wallace calls the
conscious control of existence through business principles Zonpower.

Given the integation of this proposed state of affairs--the conscious control of
existence using the laws of nature--with Objectivism, a new philosophical paradigm
unfolds. The structure duplicates that of Objectivism, while the content expands to
subsume Objectivism:

Metaphysics: Business

Epistemology: Neothink

Ethics: Value Production

Politics: Free Competition

Aesthetics: Value Reflection

Neo-Tech can be summarized as a 13-word philosophy:

What is is. Perceive it. Integrate it honestly. Act on it. Idealize it.

To see the Neo-Tech Philosophy in the form of a philosophical pyramid, building in
primacy from the foundation up, click here.